Lumberjacks stand in the snow outside the buildings that made up their camp. On the back of this card is a note from one man to a woman named Belle in DeSota, Kansas telling her that he might be coming to see her next week.
Postcard advertises what Minnesota is known for: camping, hunting and fishing. Note on the back of the postcard tells Mary that the man writing was going to camp on Farm Lake.
The current building opened its doors on December 13, 1930. It was only the second municipal building in Ely and with only one remodel done in 2014 - 2015, the building still functions well as the home of Ely's city government, fire hall, and police station.
Another Great Depression-era building whose life hangs in the balance. It stands empty since the City of Ely built a new library and left the building untenented. In its heyday it housed the library, club rooms, a ballroom on the top floor with a movie theater, a full kitchen, public showers, and more.
Rail service reached Winton in 1902 when the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad extended service to Fall Lake and Winton. Sixty years later the station was still open two hours each day as the train still thundered through.
An outcropping of Greenstone rock is located in Ely. Greenstone is one of the olest known Minnesota rocks and it is located just a few blocks off Camp Street in Ely, Minnesota.It is called Pillow Rock because of the clearly visible rounded shapes formed within this mass of lava flow. An effort has been underway to remove Pillow Rock to a location more accessible to tourists.
A group of men standing outside the Ely train depot. They include left to right: George Moonan, John Pluth, Vern McCarthy, Frank Schuyeiger, Archie Bonnier and Ernest Hanson.
Exterior view of First Presbyerian Church in Ely. This brick edifice replaced a frame building in 1924 with the new church dedicated in January of 1925.
This Greek Revival-style building became the permanent home of the American Fraternal Union in 1933. Founded and incorporated on July 18, 1898, the offices were in two previous locations before this building was constructed. The office closed in 2012 and the home office was moved to St. Paul, Minnesota.
Section Thirty is an unincorporated community located in Fall Lake Township, four miles east of Ely. Among this group at Section 30 are, Top, Mr. and Mrs. Albin Sundholm and daughters; Center in dark coat, Mrs. Oppel; Upper right, Mr. and Mrs. Thaisen and her sons Carl and Albert Ramquist.
Ely's original high school, Old High functioned in that capacity from 1905 until 1924 when the new high school opened. It later became Ely Junior College, the second such college in the State.
An excellent example of an ellipsoidal lava flow said to be 2.7 billion years old with peculiar masses formed when dark lavas flowed under water. One of the few specimens of its kind in the world. The rock is an outcrop of Ely Greenstone.
The Pioneer Mine was the largest and longest lasting of the five Ely mines. It closed on April Fool's Day 1967. It had two operating shaft structures with the "A" shaft still in existance as part of the Pioneer Mine Heritage complex.